Failure Quotes - Page 7

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

The measure of a man’s character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.

My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime usually do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed only for those exceptionally rare circumstances when all other rights have failed. A free people can only afford to make this mistake once.

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.

Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" Then do it-as nearly as you can.

Peace was the one thing that Max (Ernst) needed in order to paint, and love was the one thing I needed in order to live. As neither of us gave the other what he most desired, our union was doomed to failure.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

One fails forward toward success.

Consider the core of the mind to be a wagon, with willpower to be carried about in it. Push it to a place where there can be failure, and there will be failure. Push it to a place where there can be success, and there will be success. But whether there is success or failure, if one entrusts himself to the straightness of this wagon of the core of the mind, he will attain right-mindedness in either case. Severing oneself from desire and being like a rock or tree, nothing will ever be achieved. Not departing from desire, but realizing a desireless right-mindedness - "this is the Way".

We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.